{"id":37467,"date":"2019-10-31T22:17:49","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T19:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prohoster.info\/blog\/yadru-linux-ispolnilos-28-let\/"},"modified":"2019-10-31T22:17:49","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T19:17:49","slug":"yadru-linux-ispolnilos-28-let","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prohoster.info\/en\/blog\/news\/yadru-linux-ispolnilos-28-let","title":{"rendered":"Linux kernel has turned 28 years old","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"

On August 25, 1991, after five months of development, 21-year-old student Linus Torvalds announced<\/a><\/noindex> announced in the comp.os.minix newsgroup the creation of a working prototype of the new operating system Linux, marking the completion of the porting of bash 1.08 and gcc 1.40. The first public release of the Linux kernel was presented on September 17. The kernel 0.0.1<\/a><\/noindex> had a size of 62 KB when compressed and contained about 10,000 lines of source code. The modern Linux kernel comprises over 26 million lines of code. According to a study commissioned by the European Union in 2010, the approximate cost of developing a project equivalent to the modern Linux kernel from scratch would be over one billion<\/a><\/noindex> US dollars (the calculation was made when the kernel had 13 million lines of code); according to other<\/a><\/noindex> ratings \u2014 over 3 billion.<\/a><\/noindex>.<\/p>\n

The Linux kernel was created under the impression of the MINIX operating system, which Linus found unsatisfactory due to its restrictive license. Later, when Linux became a well-known project, detractors attempted to accuse Linus of directly copying code from certain MINIX subsystems. Andrew Tanenbaum, the author of MINIX, defended Linus, entrusting one of his students with conducting a detailed comparison of the code from MINIX and the first public versions of Linux. Results<\/a><\/noindex> The research showed only four insignificant matches of code blocks, stemming from the requirements of POSIX and ANSI C.<\/p>\n

Initially, Linus intended to name the kernel Freax, which combines the words 'free', 'freak', and X (Unix). However, the name 'Linux' was suggested by Ari Lemmke, who, at Linus's request, hosted the kernel on an FTP server<\/a><\/noindex> the university, naming the directory with the archive 'linux' instead of 'freax' as Torvalds had requested. Notably, the opportunistic businessman William Della Croce managed to register the Linux trademark and planned to collect royalties over time, but later changed his mind and transferred all rights of the trademark to Linus. The official mascot of the Linux kernel, the penguin Tux, was chosen as a result of a competition<\/a><\/noindex>, held in 1996. The name Tux is an abbreviation for Torvalds UniX.<\/p>\n

Growth dynamics of the code base (number of lines of source code) of the kernel:\n<\/p>\n